Wintry Weather

Despite the fairly consistent warm weather in Southern California, Ava was able to enjoy a weekend in the snow with her friends Josh and Sarah.  After lessons and a warm up run on the bunny slopes the kids were able to ski all the way from the top of Snow Summit down to the bottom.  

Here's a little peek of how Ava did: http://youtu.be/Liw7NIdH-mQ 

The biggest life changing event of the past couple months was Ava breaking her tooth at school during recess.  Ava is such a trooper that she picked up the broken part of her tooth, threw it away, cleaned herself up, and didn't even say anything to Abby at pick-up.

Ava's little accident has done nothing to dampen her love for school, and she continues to do well in class and outside of class, where she recently ran 10 laps in the Brywood Jog-A-Thon in order to raise money for the school to purchase laptops.

Ava's love for sports has continued throughout the winter with trips to see the Ducks, the Globetrotters, UCLA gymnastics and basketball, UCI basketball, and even a winter visit to Dodger Stadium for the Dodgers FanFest.

Ava turned 7 1/2 in February and got to celebrate her half-birthday/Valentine's Day at school and at home. 

Girl Scout cookie sales have been going strong with Ava surpassing her goal of selling 400 boxes of cookies.  Thanks to all our friends, family, co-workers, and the OC Blues for helping Ava reach her goal.  With some of the money, the girls will be supporting The Water Project to help build wells for those who would otherwise not have clean water. 

Ava has had visits from all three sets of her grandparents including Grandma and Grandpa Cruz who came to visit from Hawaii, as well as the newest member of our family cousin Anthony.